La palabra inglés para llave es
key

Definición inglesa

Traducciones de llave y sus definiciones

key
1. s. Llave
Palabras derivadas: keyhole
2. s. Clave
3. s. Tecla
Palabras derivadas: keyboard, keypad, keystroke
4. s. Cayo, cada una de las islas de un archipélago que están dispuestas más o menos en fila, propias de ciertas partes del Caribe.
5. adj. Clave, crucial

key
1. s. An object designed to open and close a lock.
2. s. An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
3. s. A crucial step or requirement.
The key to solving this problem is persistence.
the key to winning a game
4. s. A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
The key says that A stands for the accounting department.
5. s. A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
Some students cheated by using the answer key.
6. s. (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
Press the Escape key.
7. s. (music) One of a number of rectangular moving parts on a piano or musical keyboard, each causing a particular sound or note to be produced.
8. s. (music) One of various levers on a musical instrument used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
9. s. (music) A hierarchical scale of musical notes on which a composition is based.
the key of B-flat major
10. s. (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
11. s. (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
12. s. (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
13. s. (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g. a passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
14. s. (internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
15. s. (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
16. s. (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
17. s. (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
He shoots from the top of the key.
18. s. (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
19. s. (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
20. s. (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
21. s. (masonry) A keystone.
22. s. That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
23. s. (rail transport) A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
24. s. The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
The door panel should be sanded down carefully to provide a good key for the new paint.
25. s. (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
26. s. (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
27. s. (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
28. adj. Indispensable, supremely important.
He is the key player on his soccer team.
29. adj. Important, salient.
She makes several key points.
30. v. To fit (a lock) with a key.
31. v. To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
32. v. To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
33. v. (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
34. v. (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
35. v. (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
Our instructor told us to key in our user IDs.
36. v. (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
He keyed the car that had taken his parking spot.
37. v. To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
38. v. (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
39. v. To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
40. s. One of a string of small islands.
the Florida Keys
41. s. alternative form of quay.
42. s. (slang) (clipping of kilogram) (though this is more commonly shortened to kay).

tap
1. grifo, llave
2. dar golpecitos

tap
1. s. A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; a spigot.
2. s. A device used to dispense liquids.
We don't have bottled water; you'll have to get it from the tap.
3. s. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
a liquor of the same tap
4. s. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
5. s. (mechanics) A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper tap to match the valve's thread.
6. s. A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill-advised taps along its length.
7. s. An interception of communication by authority.
8. s. A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
9. s. (medicine, informal) A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity; paracentesis.
abdominal tap, pleural tap, spinal tap
10. v. To furnish with taps.
If we tap the maple trees, we can get maple syrup!
11. v. To draw off liquid from a vessel.
He tapped a new barrel of beer.
12. v. To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
13. v. To exploit.
Businesses are trying to tap the youth market.
14. v. To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
They can't tap the phone without a warrant.
15. v. To intercept a communication without authority.
He was known to tap cable television
16. v. (mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
17. v. (card games, board games) To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of tempora
18. v. (informal) To cadge, borrow or beg.
I tried to tap a cigarette off him, but he wouldn't give me one.
19. v. (medicine, informal) To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
20. v. To strike lightly.
21. v. To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
He was so nervous he began to tap his fingers on the table.
She tapped her companion on the back to indicate that she was ready to go.
Lydia tapped Jim on the shoulder to get his attention.
22. v. To make a sharp noise.
The tree, swaying in the breeze, began to tap on the window pane.
23. v. To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
24. v. (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
I would tap that hot girl over there.
I'd tap that.
25. v. (combat sports) To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
26. v. (combat sports) To force (an opponent) to submit.
27. v. To put a new sole or heel on.
to tap shoes
28. s. A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
When Steve felt a tap on his shoulder, he turned around.
29. s. tap dance
30. s. (computing) The act of touching a touch screen.
31. s. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel; a heeltap.
32. s. (military) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
33. s. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound ɾ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
34. s. An Indian malarial fever.

lock
1. s. Cerradura.
2. vt. Candar, o cerrar con llave.
3. vt. Bloquear.

lock
1. s. Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
2. s. (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
3. s. A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
4. s. (gun mechanisms) The firing mechanism.
5. s. Complete control over a situation.
6. s. Something sure to be a success.
7. s. (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
8. s. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
9. s. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
10. s. A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
11. s. A grapple in wrestling.
12. v. (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
If you put the brakes on too hard, the wheels will lock.
13. v. To fasten with a lock.
Remember to lock the door when you leave.
14. v. (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
This door locks with a key.
15. v. To intertwine or dovetail.
with his hands locked behind his back
We locked arms and stepped out into the night.
16. v. (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
a pop and lock routine
17. v. To furnish (a canal) with locks.
18. v. To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
19. v. To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
20. v. (Internet, transitive) To officially prevent other users from posting in (a thread).
21. s. A tuft or length of hair, wool etc.
22. s. A small quantity (of straw etc.)

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